8239048%wwu.csnet@CSNET-RELAY.ARPA (01/14/86)
From: Petersen@CSNET-RELAY.ARPA, Julie K <8239048%wwu.csnet@CSNET-RELAY.ARPA>
1) Pacific Amiga Users Group (suggestions for a name invited)
We'll be holding our first developers' meeting on
January 22nd (Wednesday 7:30-9:30). This is for
heavy-duty programming information.
10851 Shellbridge Way, Richmond, B.C.
273-2243. Located just southeast of
the Oak Street bridge in the Airport
Executive Park, off Shell Road.
2) Hooking up printers to the Amiga
I have tried dumping a Deluxe Paint file to an
HP LaserJet printer. Overall the dump wasn't
too bad, although somewhat 'grainy' in appear-
ance, since the awesome resolution of the HP
isn't matched by screen resolution. I think
pretty decent black and white reproductions
could be had by experimenting with the different
colors to see which provides the best approxi-
mation of individual tones. The blacks are good,
the other colors come out with the appearance
of an embroidery pattern (closest analogy I can
think of). Anyone working on a good text pro-
cessor to take advantage of the features of the
LaserJet? Better yet, I'd like to see someone
marry the Amiga with the LaserWriter--my abso-
lute favorite printer (PostScript being the main
reason).
3) Legal Issues
Could someone please enlighten me on legal issues
related to using and marketing files developed with
a copyright program? Two examples: suppose you had
a commercial wordprocessor and you decided to create
(heaven forbid) 'form' letters, e.g. to grandma, to
your banker, to your best friends, etc. for people to
use as templates to save time and then sold the product
for say $9.95 per disk. Example 2: people are using
MacPaint to create 'clip art' and marketing them to
users of MacPaint. The question: do the letter or
clip-art creators have a legal obligation (monetary)
to the creators of the word-processing or paint pro-
gram which they are using as a tool to create the
commercial product, in this context? I am asking
because some of the software being developed for the
Amiga seems to lend itself to this type of applica-
tion and the software-hungry public and the sales of
the Amiga might benefit if products of this kind were
available to fill this temporary gap.tim@ism780c.UUCP (Tim Smith) (01/16/86)
Keywords: Just curious... How come the notices for the New Jersey Amiga Users Group were posted from California, and the notice for the Pacific group are being posted from New Jersey? Isn't something backwards here? :-) -- Tim Smith sdcrdcf!ism780c!tim || ima!ism780!tim || ihnp4!cithep!tim